Ground-based lasers or masers can also help a light-sail spacecraft to decelerate: the sail splits into an outer and inner section, the outer section is pushed forward and its shape is changed mechanically to focus reflected radiation on the inner portion, and the radiation focused on the inner section acts as a brake.

Ground-based " portals " create interdimensional pathways between different points and can be used for near-instantaneous transport.

Ground-based optical astronomers can look for visual counterparts to the EUV transients seen by ALEXIS by comparing observations made at two different times.

* Missile Defense Flight or Command Representative for Missile DefenseServes as the focal point for all issues related to Ground-based Midcourse Defense in Alaska, in support of Alaska Command, Alaska NORAD Region, and 11 AF.

Aster 30 has been successfully incorporated into a land based SAM system-fulfilling the " Ground-based area defence " mission requirement.

Ground-based Midcourse Defense ( GMD ) interceptor in launch silo at Vandenberg

The latest missile deployed at Vandenberg in 2005 is the Ground-based Interceptor ( GBI ) missile Suborbital booster for the US Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense system's EKV ballistic missile kill vehicle.

Located at the MSSC are the Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope ( AEOS ), the Maui Space Surveillance System ( MSSS ), and the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance ( GEODSS ).

Ground-based observations of coma brightness suggested that Halley's rotation period was about 7. 4 days.

Ground-based observatories, located on the surface of Earth, are used to make observations in the radio and visible light portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Ground-based telescopes later found three objects along the course of the satellite, leading to the speculation that it had been destroyed.

Ground-based data obtained during IGY demonstrated that the aurora occurred in an auroral oval, a permanent region of luminescence 15 to 25 degrees in latitude from the magnetic poles and 5 to 20 degrees wide.

Ground-based optical tracking of the now-inert Vanguards continues to provide information about the effects of the Sun, Moon and atmosphere on satellite orbits.

Ground-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ( LIGO ) seek to detect high-frequency gravitational waves from stellar-sized systems, such as spinning neutron stars, supernovae, and the final minutes of the gravitationally-driven inspiral of neutron stars and black holes.

GEODSS stands for Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance and these wide field Air Force telescopes were designed to optically observe Earth orbital spacecraft.

The " radar module " of the SAMP / T Ground-based area defence system.

The " launcher module " of the SAMP / T Ground-based area defence system.

Ground-based Caelian armies typically consist of socially outcast " wingless " ( born indistinguishable from humans ), temple guards ( holy warriors who have torn off their own wings as a sign of loyalty ), and mammoths.

Ground-based, Ground Grocers range is limited by the curvature of the earth, placing most German night fighter operations below its coverage.

The Raytheon EKV is launched by the Ground Based Interceptor ( GBI ) missile, the launch vehicle of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System.

Ground-based radio astronomy is limited to high altitude sites such as Kitt Peak and Atacama Large Millimeter Array ( ALMA ) due to atmospheric absorption issues.

Ground-based flight simulation is not only used for pilot training.

Ground-based observations would not measure such parallaxes with sufficient precision due to the effects of the atmosphere and instrumental biases.

Ground-based geophysical surveys often help to identify and map archaeological features within identified sites.

Ground-based observations of the rings require the largest available telescopes.

Ground-based radar and optical observations would have been used to track the vehicle's return.

They take special care not to destroy the termite mound or consume the entire colony, which ensures that the termites can rebuild and provide a continuous supply of food.

" In the book, Osterhammel asks, " How can ' colonialism ' be defined independently from ' colony?

Beekeeping practices encourage overproduction of honey so the excess can be taken from the colony.

The advantage of Britain's new colony in providing a non-Russian source of flax and hemp for naval supplies was referred to in an article in Lloyd ’ s Evening Post of 5 October 1787 which urged: “ It is undoubtedly the interest of Great-Britain to remain neutral in the present contest between the Russians and the Turks ” and observed, “ Should England cease to render her services to the Empress of Russia, in a war against the Turks, there can be little of nothing to fear from her ill-will.

The principal islands are those of the Archipiélago de las Perlas in the middle of the Gulf of Panama, the penal colony on the Isla de Coiba in the Golfo de Chiriquí, and the decorative island of Taboga, a tourist attraction that can be seen from Panama City.

This lack of knowledge of the dynamics of plague in mammal species is also true among susceptible rodents such as the black-tailed prairie dog ( Cynomys ludovicianus ), in which plague can cause colony collapse, resulting in a massive effect on prairie food webs.

It seems to have received a colony in the time of Augustus, whence we find mention in inscriptions of the Ordo et Populus splendidissimae Coloniae Augustae Himeraeorum Thermitanorum: and there can be very little doubt that the Thermae colonia of Pliny in reality refers to this town, though he evidently understood it to be Thermae Selinuntiae ( modern Sciacca ), as he places it on the south coast between Agrigentum ( modern Agrigento ) and Selinus There are little subsequent account of Thermae ; but, as its name is found in Ptolemy and the Itineraries, it appears to have continued in existence throughout the period of the Roman Empire, and probably never ceased to be inhabited, as the modern town of Termini Imerese retains the ancient site as well as name.

His name can be seen as an homage both to Rand's hero and to Robert Heinlein's character Mike in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a self-aware computer network that engineers a revolution in a lunar penal colony using the alias Adam Selene.

Outside the Lion Pavilion Lookout on Victoria Peak | The Peak, Hong Kong, can find this last licensed rickshaw ride in this ex-British colony.

At the end of the film, Spock Prime tells the younger Spock a suitable planet had been located to establish a colony for the surviving Vulcans, so it can be assumed that this planet will be the new Vulcan.

In the ringing studies birds ringed as chicks are recapatured close to their original nests, a tendency which can be extreme at times ; in Laysan Albatross the average distance between hatching site and the site where a bird established its own territory was, and a study of Cory's Shearwaters nesting near Corsica found that of nine out of 61 male chicks that returned to breed at their natal colony actually bred in the burrow they were raised in.

South Vietnam's origins can be traced to the French colony of Cochinchina, which consisted of the southern third of Vietnam and was a subdivision of French Indochina.

The group is much larger than the colony can easily absorb.

As such these species can be thought to have four tiers of social kinship, the individual pair, the family unit, the clan and the colony as a whole.

For example, Ministers and Secretaries that do not follow the democratically selected decisions of a colony can be removed by a similar vote of a colony.

A minister of a colony who does not ensure his colony follows broader " Bishop " council decisions can be removed from his position.

This process can be very difficult and stressful for a colony, as many political and family dynamics become topics of discussion, and not everyone will be happy about the process or its results.

A number of scarce invertebrates and plants can be found in the dunes, and the reserve is one of only two sites in the UK to have an antlion colony.

* Metropolis can refer to the mother city of a colony, the see of a metropolitan archbishop or a Metropolitan area — a major urban population centre.

Mental health is also an issue in a small colony in space, so meditation spaces, psychotherapy and even detention pods can be of use.

Individual nesting sites can be widely spaced, as in an albatross colony, or densely packed as with a murre colony.

Disturbance of breeding colonies by humans is often a problem as well — visitors, even well-meaning tourists, can flush brooding adults off a colony leaving chicks and eggs vulnerable to predators.